The Mikado

Starring: Baker, Kenny and Green, Martyn

Product Description

The Japanese emperor's son loves the Lord High Executioner's ward in Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 715515069212
• Release Date: March 2011
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Criterion/ Distribution S
• Director: Schertzinger, Victor
• Starring: Baker, Kenny, Green, Martyn
• Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

If You Want to Know Who We Are.

You would hardly know that this is a 1939 (Technicolor) adaptation without all the silence and intertitles. Again, this is a Geoffrey Toye film adaptation and not a recording of the play. The version I watched had no subtitles. The Mikado by that great team of dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), I did not realize that I knew much of the music from other sources. This included a version of " I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger ", an American Folk Song of unknown origin. We get other generally known songs of the time. You can tell the ones from Gilbert and Sullivan. Many such as “Three Little Maids” can be found in other movies and online. The basic story the son of the Mikado is required to marry the plain-looking Katisha (Constance Willis). Disguised as a musician named Nanki-Poo (Kenny Baker) escapes, and the journey begins. And the plot thickens. It is the details and dialogue that make the experience.